Does anyone want an Ao3 invite? I've got one kicking around that I'm not using.

I've seen this around and thought it looked like fun.


Pick a number from the list and I'll answer it in the comments.

1 - Your current OTP
2 - A pairing you initially didn’t consider but someone changed your mind
3 - A pairing you have never liked and probably never will
4 - A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t
5 - Have you added anything stupid/cracky/hilarious to your fandom, if so, what
6 - What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom
7 - Do you remember your first OTP, if so who was in it
8 - Do you prefer characters from real action series or anime series
9 - Has the internet caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why
10 - Name a fandom you didn’t care/think about until you saw it all over tumblr/LJ/DW
11 - How do you feel about the other people in your current fandom
12 - Your favorite fanartist/author gives you one request, what do you ask for
13 - Your favorite fanart or fanartist
14 - Your favorite fanfiction or fanauthor
15 - Choose a song at random, which OTP does it remind you of
16 - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas)
17 - A ship you’ve abandoned and why
18 - A pairing you ship that you don’t think anyone else ships
19 - Show us an example of your personal headcanon
20 - Do you remember what your first fanwork was?
21 - Self-rec: What's your favorite fanwork you've created?
22 - Are you one of those fans who can’t watch anything without shipping
23 - 5 favorite characters from 5 different fandoms
24 - 3 OTPs from 3 different fandoms
25 - A fandom you’re in but have no ships from
26 - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go

Hmm, I seem to be rather obsessed with this at the moment -



Maybe my fanish instincts are finally emerging from hibernation?

You know what I hate? I hate it when, after a long period of not reading fanfic, I find one so perfect that I just want everything else that I read in the same fandom to be of similar quality. But most of the aren't so I am invariably let down and I really hate that.

*le sigh*

Hellooo interwebs!

I'm still alive, although I'm finding that the longer I go without posting the harder it becomes to do so. I'm still sans internet at home, which seems to shock people more than I thought it would. When I tell them that I have no access to the WWW outside of work hours its like I've told then that I've cut off my left foot or something. Very odd.

So, what's been happening? Not a lot, really. I spent my birthday in a meeting in Wollongong, which was novel, have traveled back and forth to the old home town many times over the last month and ate too many party pies at my niece's fifth birthday party on Saturday. Seriously, I cannot look a meat pie in the eye at the moment. The very though of it makes me want to gag.

I've also been doing a lot of sewing. Dresses mostly. I can't get enough dresses these days and as a result my wardrobe it about to burst at the seams, so to speak. But still. DRESSES!!!!!

*ahem*

Not much happening on the fannish front. I seem to have lost all interest in fanfic, both reading and writing it, and I'm barely keeping up with the shows I do have a passing interest in. Put it this way: I've only just watched the first episode of season six of Supernatural. That's how far behind I am. I can't say if this lull is permanent or temporary. I'll just have to wait and find out.

*waves at you all*

ETA: So now I'm eating my words about the fanfic thing because I just found out that celli posted this perfect little Dan/Casey ficlet for me on AO3 and I just love it!

*hearts*

Note to self: You know what happens when you start reading Fandom Wank, so do not even kid yourself that you'll only take a quick look before going to bed. You will be sucked and you know it!

I've been giving my delicious bookmarks a bit of a spring clean - editing tags and the like, and as can happen I was quite dismayed when I found that the links to couple of my favourite stories had died because the authors had apparently deleted their journals!

Oh noes! I cried and ran off to the wayback machine to see if I could resurrect them. One of them I had no trouble finding, but the other was a multi-chapter story and it was looking very much like only about half the chapters had been archived. I wibbled for a moment and was just about to give up in despair when I did what I do best: I applied the google-fu mad skillz that are an integral part of my professional life, hoping that the author had posted it to some other comm or archive. To my delight it popped up on a fic finder list. Apparently the author had changed her LJ username and all her fic could now be found under her new name. After that I did a similar search for the other fic and the same thing had happened.

I have now updated my bookmarks to reflect the new links and names, but the whole thing really just served to remind me of the transitory nature of the internet and fandom in particular. People come and go; websites get updated regularly or not at all; archives hang around for years, even after interested in the fandom has petered out, or have a short, brilliant life span before they fall over due to technical difficulties or sheer apathy, never to be seen again. Fics are posted and read, filed away for future reference and either forgotten about or have vanished when one is in the mood to read that great fic one loved to pieces three fandoms ago.

Once upon a time I'd save all my favourite stores from my current favourite fandoms to my hard drive, all neatly organised in folders by the name of the author. But as my interest in a fandom would start to wane I'd stop saving the fic and eventually I'd delete all the save fic to make space for whatever fandom had taken its place. While I was hinting around for my passport tonight I stumbled across a CD of Sports Night fic that I made several years ago after my interest in the fandom began to die and I wanted to make room on my hard drive for fic from my new fandom. I haven't read those stories in years, and these days if I do find an SN fic that piques my interest I'll save it to my delicious bookmarks rather than my hard drive. But there's no guarantee that the fic will be there if and when I want to read it again. I guess it's the risk I take being part of what is, in the face of it, a fairly transitory thing. Who knows what tomorrow will bring or what fic will survive as we all move on with both fandom and our lives.

I've come to the startling conclusion that I'm not that interested in reading fanfic at the moment. I try but lose interested after a couple of paragraphs and return to whatever book I'm reading at the moment.

I think it's because I recently realised that for ages and ages all I was reading was fanfic. Now my brain has decided that This Is Not On and it wants more than just cute boys being cute together. I don't mind it, especially when my To Read pile has been threatening to drown me for about two years, I just find it odd that all of a sudden I've gone from all fanfic all of the time, to 'Damn, where's my book?' in almost the blink of an eye. It could also explain why I've been so ambivalent about LJ lately. When I couldn't get enough fic it was my absolute lifeline, but these days I'm more likely to be perusing the 813's at work than trawling around the intertubes for new fic.

Huh.

mergatrude is running a Rec Yourself! party over at her journal. Any and all fandoms are welcome to join in, so if you feel like you've been unduly neglected by recs lists and fandom over the years, go and Rec Yourself!

Dear certain elements of fandom who seem intent on ruining the fun for everyone else,

Just stop it, okay? Not only is your behaviour childish and immature, just lately it has tipped over into thoughtlessly malicious and that is just not on. My advice to you is, if you can't play nicely please don't play at all. And no, we really won't mind if you pack up your toys and go home.

Sincerely,

Laylee